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Description

The station, evidently, broadcasts from Los Santos. This station was released in a joint album with Playback FM as part of the 8-Disc soundtrack. The station also includes references to "carjacking on the rise", Los Santos gang violence, and the Los Santos crack epidemic - being that these activities play a key element of the gameplay and the story. This is the favourite radio station of the Grove Street Families and Ryder. The radio station's DJ in 1992 is Julio G. Rapper B-Real from Cypress Hill makes an appearance on the station and so does Madd Dogg who is voiced by Ice-T. Other appearances on the radio station include; OG Loc and Big Smoke once the first chapter (Los Santos missions) has been completed.

In Grand Theft Auto V it appears once again, this time hosted by Big Boy - host of Big Boy's neighborhood in Los Angeles and voice of Big Bear in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

Trivia

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Radio Los Santos may be based on real-life Los Angeles-based radio stations KPWR 105.9 (Power 106) and 93.5 KDAY. The Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas rendition of Radio Los Santos may likely be based on KDAY as Julio G was a former DJ on the station. GTA V's rendition is likely based on Power 106 as Big Boy was a DJ for the station until 2015, when he moved to KRRL 92.3 (The Real).

When 2Pac's song "I Don't Give a Fuck" plays, Julio G sometimes mentions that he is scared about playing the song due to its heavy use of profanity as well as political lyrical content and he'll likely get fined for playing it. Despite this, most of the songs played on the radio station in 1992 contain explicit content.

In one of the listener's phone calls to the station, a drum instrumental of N.W.A's "Dopeman" can be heard, a song not featured in the game, "Express Yourself" samples the song "Dopeman" on this station. Dopeman samples the song "Funky Worm" by the Ohio Players, a song featured on Bounce FM.

"It Was A Good Day" by Ice Cube is sampled from "Footsteps in the Dark" by The Isley Brothers which can be heard on The Vibe 98.8 in GTA IV.

"It Was a Good Day" and "Check Yo Self" by Ice Cube, while featured for his 1992 album "The Predator", weren't actually released as singles until 1993, after the setting of the game.

Similarly, "Fuck wit' Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')" by Dr. Dre, while featured on Dr. Dre's 1992 debut album "The Chronic", wasn't actually released as a single until 1993.

Grand Theft Auto V

This is Franklin Clinton's favorite radio station, as it is the default station for both of hisvehicles, along with The Lab which can rarely automatically come on in the enhanced version of the game. It plays inside both of hissafehouses.

This is the favourite radio station of the Families and the Ballas gangs.

This is one of Lamar Davis's favourite radio stations, the other one being West Coast Classics which plays older hip-hop tracks from the 1980s and 1990s, as this station did in GTA San Andreas as mentioned above.

In the enhanced (Xbox One/PS4/PC) version of the game, whenever the player starts the mission Franklin and Lamar and chooses to repossess either the 9F or the Rapid GT, the radio is tuned in automatically to Radio Los Santos and the song Bad News by Danny Brown & Action Bronson will always play.

This is different to the original version of the game for PS3 & Xbox 360, which will instead play "Appetite For Destruction" by N.W.A. (featured on West Coast Classics) during the mission.

The same song is also featured in the Welcome to Los Santos album by The Alchemist and Oh No, in which all of the songs except for this one can be heard in The Lab. This song was also cut from previous-gen releases as seen in the trackID.gxt2 files.